Live Images of LG Renoir, the Viewty successor, emerge

Back in August, LG officially announced the new LG KC910, the successor to the LG Viewty. Officially given the name LG Renoir, the phone has made its appearance in a few pictures snagged from it168.com. A short review of the specs will remind you that it has Quad-band GSM, UMTS (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps), 3 inch WQVGA 240×400 touchscreen display, 8 megapixel camera with Xenon flash & Schneider-Kreuznach lens, GPS with geotagging support, Bluetooth 2.0, and WiFi. The Renoir is expected to be available sometime in October. We have another touchscreen phone with a huge beautiful 8MP camera and some more cell phone eye candy for you all. Hit the jump for the rest of the pics.

I think this is the first time I will actually agree with anyone who says “ZOMG IT LOOKS LIKE AN IPHONE!!!11”

Laura

not that att will ever have this it could be a great update to the vu that att has now

Sam

The browser looks horrible or is it my eyes

alex

lets just say, we might have a iphone slaughterhouse right before us!!!

Jim

And it’s running window mobile or some other hard to use OS other than OS X right?

Hey guys, it’s all about the user interface. Not a baby version of email, internet, mail, address book calendar like it offers.

Just another skin deep “we’ve got touch screen too” copy of the iPhone.

Ho hummm

blake

It’s like an iPhone and a Dare that just got slammed right into each other.

Mark

Hey, Jim, it’s about user interface, not crashing and being able to use crazy things like cut and paste.

The iPhone still has the best interface but the difference between it and the new WinMo phones is negligible plus, of course, the WinMo phones don’t force you to use iTunes or dictate what you can actually put on them.

Omer Bila

Actually, it is about Infrastructure. The reason the iphone is successful is not because of the phone itself, but in fact, due to the synergy between the phone and the back-end provided by iTunes. This close relationship is also what makes the ipod so successful and is the reason why more powerful MP3 players from other brands cannot compete. Remember the days when people were talking about the next ipod killer. Well, that never happened and people don’t even talk about it anymore. The ipod rules the music industry plain and simple. Now Apple is using the same strategy behind the iphone. But to return to my main point: Back-End Infrastructure is why iphone is wining, not because it is a nice phone.

http://www.milesfiles.de MILE

Oh right, an iPhone…! I was wondering what that piece of hi-tech art actually reminded me of…! ;)

matrix2004 from HOFO

Where’s the pic? I don’t see it?

NoVaSpY

Yeah because dictating what ends up on your mobile phone is such a bad thing. Having software floating around that hasn’t been verified is what I want to install on my iPhone while waiting for the bus. When are people going to understand that Apples philosophy is stability much like a calculator, it just works. Windows take on it is to allow deeper customization which usually ends up in letting the customer, not the engineer, be the guinea pig just to bring in further profits and to create jobs for support and repairs. An apple represents simplicity, whereas a window represents something that can clearly break…

Dave

another user who has the iPhone and is now getting stung by the much better phones being released are you? There are so many ppl rushed out to get the iPhone when it was released, since then there’s been a price drop, a new version and about 10 other (arguably better) phones released!No denying it’s a sweet phone!

Wishmaster

To NoVaSpY:

Yeah that’s great we can’t do anything without their permission just great. When I pay for something I want to be able to do anything with it and not relay on apple so I could use something useful for me and useless for apple(cause remember that apple recently started checking applications that get sent to the AppStore and it turns out that they throw out those applications that duplicate iPhone functions even if they do it better so in a way they’re bashing developers for doing something better than they did). This is something not worth paying for.

kpeezy

iphone blows, waste of money

Janoeterm

The proof, whether or not this is the iPhone killer, will be defined by the length of the waiting line outside the LG-store on the eve of the first day it is for sale.

And the first pics of another LG, the KP500 (which will be sold exclusively with The Phone House starting this holiday season). It’s an extremely light full-touchscreen phone with 3MP cam: http://www.mobilecowboys.nl/toestellen/8133

sonicwind

iPhone killer? The iPhone is the one they’re all copying, and poorly so. But the copies do seem to be getting better. I know the iPhone has a lot of malfunctions, but it’s the general program interface and the big, high quality screen that makes it stand out. While additional hardware features are showing up in other phones like the camera in this one, manufacturers just aren’t coming up with a device that has the elegance of an iPhone and they probably won’t ever, because when other companies design devices that don’t go about it with the same goal. They try to shallowly copy the iPhone and stuff in hardware features and gimmicky software. There will always be a lot of people who will prefer the quality of the iPhone over other phones, and there will be people who prefer the specific features of other phones over the package the iPhone offers.

manny

wow this one really looks like the iphone, lol im more than happy with my iphone 3G and of course you can expect newer phones to come out and be better than the iphone because technology changes everyday but the iphone still remains the most amazing touch screen phone with a revolutionary mobile browser and OS, and tons of apps that increase the functionality of the phone and thats why no other phone will share the success the iphone has.

Cheddar

What a piece of junk. The fact everyone feels the need to call their knockoff an iPhone killer and the fact everyone rags on the iPhone to make it less than it is proves the iPhone is still the premier smartphone.

Nobody has the combination of applications, seamless operating system, incredible style, functionality and support of the iPhone. The 2.1 update fixed most all of the bugs and the few that remain are much less than the issues you have to deal with on any other phone.

There is only ONE iPhone, everything else falls short. Let them come, every time some fool releases a knockoff Apple gets more free press…that’s what happens when you are #1.

Ballz to the iPhone

I’m so sick of all you Apple/iPhone fanboys slagging off other phones. You go on endlessly about how superior the iPhone’s interface is and it’s usability, but that’s where your arguments tend to die. There are quite literally dozens of superior handsets available at the moment (e.g. the Samsung Omnia, the upcoming HTC Touch HD with it’s far superior display, Android-equipped handsets). So many phones with higher capacity storage, faster 3.5g speeds, higher megapixel cameras, A2DP, MMS, flash support, haptic feedback, optical joysticks, DVB-T, video recording, BT file transfer, etc etc etc. Despite how much you bag it, WinMo has far more user functionality and potential for expansion. It’s obvious the typical iPhone owner is a mindless sheep who is wholly susceptible to marketing and hype (I mean, how different is the 2nd gen iPhone to the 1st gen? Not a hell of a lot), and who doesn’t bother to/is incapable of doing their research first.

And as for claiming that every manufacturer is copying iPhone’s physical design – actually there were other manufacturers well before Apple who had a similar design (see older LG handsets). Besides which, can any of you fanboys think of how to massively differentiate a rectangular/widescreen form factor for a mobile phone? No??? I didn’t think so…

Actually, I think LG came out with the touch-screen Prada well before Apple’s Iphone.

LG have also been making touch-screen phones for ages especially for the Asian community, due to the ease of using a Stylus when writing Asian Characters. Apparently the iPhone is still crap for writing Asian characters.

Bingo Bango

No one can deny the iPhones great user interface, but other phones have their perks too. i mean, the iphones camera is extreemy crappy and takes pictures like its a 0.3 VGA camera.
Sure it has a nice screen, but its not the nicest screen on the market, nor does it have the highest resolution.
I will give it multi touch. that is a nice feature that no other company can seem to accomodate into their phones.
I think each person needs to look at what they need in a phone and decide from there. The iPhone has its ups and downs, but so does every other WM phones.
LG has really good touch interfaces for their phones. I have used the Vu, Glimmer, and Dare and they all have exceptional interfaces. It doesnt have the smoothness or the ease of the iPhone, but it is a great UI for just regular phones.

Ballz to the Iphone…well said…if I can’t record video, send pictures to anyone or even copy and paste the I don’t want it. and Omer Bila you said it’s about infrastructure, I think it is more about brand and UI. Yes, the iphone has a great UI but the only reason it has done so well is because it is made by Apple. Loyalists flocked to AT&T to pick it up just to support and have another product made by Apple. If you look at the phone’s features as well as it’s use, it is pretty subpar to other windows mobile and smartphones out there.